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Nematode   /nˈɛmətˌoʊd/   Listen
noun
nematode  n.  (Zool.) Any worm of the phylum Nematoda; a roundworm; they are unsegmented worms having a cylindrical elongated body. They may live freely in soil or water, or as parasites in plants or animals.



adjective
nematode  adj.  (Zool.) Same as Nematoid.






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"Nematode" Quotes from Famous Books



... remarks, "Africa is the chief stronghold of the real Devil—the reactionary forces of Nature hostile to the uprise of Humanity. Here Beelzebub, King of the Flies, marshals his vermiform and arthropod hosts—insects, ticks, and nematode worms—which more than in other continents (excepting Negroid Asia) convey to the skin, veins, intestines, and spinal marrow of men and other vertebrates the microorganisms which cause deadly, disfiguring, or debilitating diseases, or themselves create the morbid condition of ...
— The Negro • W.E.B. Du Bois

... extremity gets broken off. In one instance I noticed a very large form with the anterior end under some debris, which evidently held it tight, for the body of the ciliate was thrashing back and forth and twisting itself into knots, etc., like a nematode worm. Finally, the anterior end broke off with about one-tenth of the body; the remainder, in an hour, had regenerated a new anterior end with long cilia, but with no indication of four sides. The small anterior piece was also ...
— Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole - Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 • Gary N. Galkins



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